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Clinical Stories and their Translations
Clinical Stories and Their Translations proposes and illustrates via numerous case examples, the utility of a psychology-informed ethnographic method of clinical thinking, teaching, supervision and... (more)
Female Homosexuality: Choice Without Volition, A Psychoanalytic Study
This text describes the analytic treatment of eight female homosexuals with common symptoms of incomplete body image and unconscious denial of differences between the sexes. It details the recurring... (more)
Between Author and Reader: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Writing and Reading
Addresses the questions of what author and reader want from each other, and uses psychoanalysis to study the acts of writing and reading using the empathic and introspective methods of the working... (more)
Psychological anthropology reconsidered
This text reviews developments in psychological anthropology, and argues for an eclectic approach that allows room for psychoanalytic, dialogical, and social perspectives on personality and culture.... (more)
Fantasy and reality in history
Integrating history, political psychology, and psychoanalysis, this study examines the psycho-sexual conflicts of charismatic political leaders, including Gladstone and Zhirinovsky. It explores... (more)
First Things: The maternal imaginary in literature, art and psychoanalysis
This study combines close readings with theoretical concerns, in an examination of the many forms taken by the mythic of phantasmic mother in literary, psychoanalytical and artistic representations.... (more)
Subject and Agency in Psychoanalysis: Which is to be Master?
Psychoanalysis works with words - words spoken by a subject who asks that the analyst listens. This is the belief that underlies Moran's exploration of a central problem in psychoanalytic theory -... (more)
Psychoanalytic literary criticism
Provides examples of the literary criticism which has emerged from the conjunction between psychoanalysis and post-structuralism. The book defines concepts and methods by tracing the role the story... (more)
Platonism and Positivism in Psychology
In this classic text, originally published as 'What Man Has Made of Man', Adler shows that psychology is - simultaneously - a particular social science, and a branch of philosophical knowledge. He... (more)
The Castration of Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism and Feminism
The authors combine the disparate traditions of psychoanalysis, postmodernism and feminism the create a provocative, unified and tightly woven perspective that transcends the misogyny implicit in... (more)
In and out of the mind: Greek images of the tragic self
Arguing that Greek tragic language connects images of consciousness (even male consciousness) with the darkness attributed both to Hades and to women, Padel analyzes tragedy's biological and... (more)
Frankenstein: New Casebooks
This volume collects together contemporary work on the novel from Marxist; psychoanalytic; historicist; feminist; and poststructuralist perspectives. It reflects the way monstrosity in its literary;... (more)
Desiring theology
Argues for the possibility of theological thinking in a postmodern secular milieu, equating a desire to think theologically with a desire for a thinking that does not disappoint. Winquist suggests... (more)
Society and psyche: Social theory and the unconsciousness dimension of the social
Providing interpretations and drawing critically upon classical and modern social theory - including post-structuralism and psychoanalysis - this study offers an alternative way of thinking about the... (more)
Self, person, world: The interplay of conscious and unconscious in human life
This is a survey of human life in its personal, social, and mythic dimensions, drawing on a variety of sources, most notably Freud, Weber, Husserl, and recent work in cognitive and developmental... (more)
Hide and Seek: The Child Between Psychoanalysis and Fiction
Examines representations of the child in fiction, psychoanalysis and popular culture. Drawing on popular images of the child from the 19th century to the present, it raises provocative questions... (more)
The Problem of the Passions: Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
This book addresses what is often missing from discussions of women's psychology in feminist social theory: an account of women as ambivalent, both empathic and engaged, both loving and hating.
Myth and Madness: The Psychodynamics of Anti-Semitism
By examining prejudiced patients and their myths, Dr Ostow exposes the common threads of anti-semitism across a variety of national and cultural settings. The book is divided into five major... (more)